Richard Ledyard <> wrote
>I think I'd better get some Genko whatever for recall.
>Would some one kindly list the Kings of France in chronological order, from
>about Louis VI to Charles VI. Somehow, I think I've gotten them out of
>order, but my files were put together by father-son relationships, and a
>couple of times a cousin jumped in. Somehow, I seem to have messed things
>up.

It's EASY. From Philip I on, there's a pattern:

Philip
Louis Louis
Philip
Louis Louis
Philip
Philip Louis (John) Philip
Charles (the one you left out -- last of the elder Capetians, first time the
name was used by the Capetians)

Valois:
Philip
John
Charles Charles Charles (careful here -- not TOO many)
Louis
Charles
Louis
Francois
Henry
Francois
Charles Henry Henry
and then Louis's to the Republic -- how many is a matter of opinion (does
one count the 17th? the 18th?
I say if he doesn't have a furniture style, he can't be a real king.
But others will differ.)

Jean Coeur de Lapin

P.S. Where did the name Philip come from? It had never been used in the West
by ANYONE since the fall of the Western Empire, when Philip I of France
turns up. Yes, it's Greek. Yes, he had a Byzantine maternal grandmother or
great-grandmother. (Though NOT an imperial princess.) Who was his father
trying to impress? And why did Henry I marry Anne of Kiev anyway?

And if you're interested in such matters, why did Vladislas II of Hungary
and Bohemia marry Anne of Foix-Candale? What was the percentage? What did he
get out of such a union? The previous Vladislas married Madeleine of France,
d. of Charles VI, who then remarried Gaston of Foix-Navarre. I can
understand that connection. But not this one. Or was she just available when
no king's daughter was available? Sort of like Marie de Guise marrying James
V on the rebound from that other Madeleine of France?